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Ulf-Dietrich Reips

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Ulf-Dietrich Reips is a Germany psychologist and professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Konstanz, where he holds the Chair for Psychological Methods Assessment and Science. Between 2009 and 2013, he was an Ikerbasque research professor at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain and remains affiliated with Ikerbasque. Until 2009, he was an Oberassistent at the Psychology Department of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Career

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Reips received his PhD in 1997 and his habilitation (venia legendi, title 'Privatdozent') in 2004 from the University of Tübingen, Germany. In 1992, he received an M.A. in Psychology from Sonoma State University, California. He completed most of his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Tübingen, where he attended the Leibniz Kolleg, majoring in Psychology and General Rhetoric (studying under Walter Jens) and minoring in Political Science. In 2012, Reips received a FIRST[1] award from the University of Colorado Boulder and has since held an honorary affiliation with its Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. Based on his publications' impact and affiliation with Ikerbasque, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Spain ranked him 7th on a list of "Top Scientists working at Spanish Private Universities" in 2014.[2][3] In the fall of 2015, Reips was offered the directorship of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information in Trier, in conjunction with a full professorship for Psychology at the University of Trier.

Ulf-Dietrich Reips' research focuses on internet-based research methodologies (including iScience, internet science, and online research methods), particularly internet-based psychological experiments (a method used in experimental psychology) and internet-based tests. His work also includes the psychology of the internet, measurement, the cognition of causality, social media, and big data. In 1994 and 1995, he founded the Web Experimental Psychology Lab, noted as the first laboratory for conducting real experiments on the World Wide Web. In 1997, he was one of the seven founders of the German Society for Online Research (DGOF). His book chapter on internet-based experimentation methodology [4] earned him a Young Scientist award from the German Society for Psychology. His 2002 article in Experimental Psychology, Standards for Internet-based experimenting, is cited as influential in the field and became the journal's most cited article.[5] In 2005, Reips was elected the first non-North American president of the Society for Computers in Psychology.

Reips is the founding editor of the International Journal of Internet Science,[6] where he currently serves as joint editor with Uwe Matzat.

Awards

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Reips and his Web services have received recognition and awards from various institutions, including the Methods Division of the German Psychological Society (Young Scientist Award, 1997), Oxford University (cited as a "key player in the social shaping of e-science and e-social science"[7]), University of Colorado Boulder, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Encyclopædia Britannica, Der Spiegel, "Planet Science", Bild der Wissenschaft, New Scientist, The British Academy, Die Zeit, IBM, and the American Psychological Society. In January 2017, the Society for Computers in Psychology named his 2001 paper, "Reips, U.-D. (2001). The Web Experimental Psychology Lab: Five years of data collection on the Internet. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 33, 201-211.", one of eight "groundbreaking and influential" articles in the history of the society and the field.[8]

In 1996, Reips won the First Internet Literature competition in Germany, co-organized by the German weekly Die Zeit and IBM, with his digital poem "Das Websonett". This work is a digital media variation and sonetto di risposta[9] based on A.W. Schlegel's original sonnet.[10] Literature theorist Erika Greber described "Das Websonett" as "literarisch anspruchsvoll" (literarily sophisticated)[11] and featured a special printable version created by Reips on the last page of her compendium on poetological metaphorism and literature theory.[12] Reips later created an additional version.[13] All versions remain functional in modern web browsers.

Publications

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Web applications

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Ulf-Dietrich Reips and his team develop and provide free Web tools for researchers and students.

References

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  1. ^ "Univ. of Colorado Boulder award to U.-D. Reips « iscience". iscience. iscience - Universitat Konstanz. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  2. ^ "Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips". www.uni-konstanz.de. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  3. ^ "Ulf-Dietrich Reips ranked 7th in list of "Top Scientists working at Spanish Private Universities" « iscience". Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  4. ^ Reips, U.-D. (1997). Das psychologische Experimentieren im Internet [Psychological experimenting on the Internet]. In B. Batinic (Ed.), Internet für Psychologen (pp. 245-265). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
  5. ^ Reips, U.-D. (2002). Standards for Internet-based experimenting. Experimental Psychology, 49, 243-256.
  6. ^ International Journal of Internet Science
  7. ^ Woolgar, S. (2003). Social shaping perspectives on e-science and e-social science: the case for research support. A consultative study for the Economic and Social Research Council. Retrieved 16 April 2008, from http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/04164366-448C-49B3-B359-FC55CC4A5BD6/879/ESocialScience.pdf.
  8. ^ [[1] "Groundbreaking and Influential Articles"]. Society for Computation in Psychology. Retrieved 25 July 2024. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  9. ^ Greber, E.: Triskaidekaphobia: Sonettzahlen und Zahlensonette. In Andrea Albrecht, Werner Frick, Gesa von Essen (Hg.): Zahlen, Zeichen und Figuren. Mathematische Inspirationen in Kunst und Literatur, Berlin 2011, p. 218
  10. ^ ["Das Sonett" "A.W. Schlegel: Das Sonett"] (in German). Retrieved 25 July 2024. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  11. ^ Greber, E.: Textile Texte. Poetologische Metaphorik und Literaturtheorie: Studien zur Tradition des Wortflechtens und der Kombinatorik. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau, 2002 (Pictura et Poesis 9), p. 589
  12. ^ Greber, E.: Textile Texte. Poetologische Metaphorik und Literaturtheorie: Studien zur Tradition des Wortflechtens und der Kombinatorik. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau, 2002 (Pictura et Poesis 9), p. 701
  13. ^ [technically updated version "The Websonett (1996/1999)"]. Retrieved 25 July 2024. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
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